Aphc Tight-Lipped About Solidarity Front

The All Parties Hurriet Conference (APHC) is tight-lipped about the Solidarity Front created to press for the implementation of the UN Security Council resolutions on Kashmir. The formation of the front was announced last month in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pak occupied Kashmir.

Political observers consider the Solidarity Front as a floating a parallel secessionist organisation which would ultimately underline the influence of the APHC.

The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), led by Amanullah Khan in Pak occupied Kashmir, in a message faxed to Valley-based newspapers has said that the JKLF does not contribute to the demands of the Solidarity Front which considers only two options for Kashmiris those between India and Pakistan.

Shoura-e-Jehad, a militant conglomerate comprising seven pro-Pak groups, has welcomed the formation of the Solidarity Front. It has expressed the hope that the front shall try to represent the aspirations of Kashmiris in the right perspective.

The supremo of pro-Pak Hizbul Mujahideen, Syed Sallauddin, who is presently in the Pak Occupied Kashmir is also believed to have favoured the creation of the Front. Rashid Turabi, the chief of Jamiat-e-Islami, Ayub Thakur and Raja Muzaffar have also favoured the development.

The APHC leaders are yet to explain as to what necessitated the formation of the Front, a political parallel when the APHC has been pursuing the secessionist agenda so well.

The hawks among the secessionist politicians have been criticising the APHC for having failed in channelising the secessionist sentiment and confining its activities to Bandhs and Dharnas which to the hard-liners among the secessionists appear to be Gandhian methods of agitation. There is a growing worry among the hard-liners that the APHC has almost lost its grip on the militant groups.

Given the new development, the APHC appears to be hard-pressed to balance its act, fighting the mainstream politics and assuring the hardliners that the secessionist agenda has to be confined to keeping the pot boiling since public euphoria of the type witnessed during early 1990s it hard to come by.